{"id":881,"date":"2006-06-04T06:24:32","date_gmt":"2006-06-04T11:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.50.194.231\/~vqplgdbg\/?p=881"},"modified":"2006-06-04T06:24:32","modified_gmt":"2006-06-04T11:24:32","slug":"an-epiphany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=881","title":{"rendered":"An epiphany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I was standing at the open refrigerator looking for some lunch meat or perhaps a bucket of lard, when I thought to myself, &#8220;This never happened when I tuned people up&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>In that moment i realized, back in the day when I solved a lot of my interpersonal communication problems with my fists, or a chair, or a baseball bat, or a piece of 3\/4&#8243; thinwall conduit, I never overate, never had a weight problem. When someone pissed me off, or acted a fool around me, I would adjust their attitude. An attitude so adjusted rarely needed readustment. Oh, sometimes a little tuneup. <\/p>\n<p>Thankfully I don&#8217;t do this anymore. On the other hand, when someone pisses me off, some commenter on some thread perhaps, or some ignorant moron like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnbc.com\/politics\/9306297\/detail.html\">Alan Hevesi <\/a> mouths off, I head for the fridge.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I need to tune someone up. Lose about fifty pounds. Wonder where I should start. Damn, that&#8217;s a long list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I was standing at the open refrigerator looking for some lunch meat or perhaps a bucket of lard, when I thought to myself, &#8220;This never happened when I tuned people up&#8221;. In that moment i realized, back in the day when I solved a lot of my interpersonal communication problems with my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}